Nina Foch
Highest Rated: 100% Executive Suite (1954)
Lowest Rated: 5% 'Til There Was You (1997)
Birthday: Apr 20, 1924
Birthplace: Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
Tall, blonde B-film lead of the 1940s turned character actress from the 1950s on, most typically as cool, aloof women whose surface sophistication only thinly masks their insecurity. Foch made a good impression as one of Bela Lugosi's victims in the enjoyable "Return of the Vampire" (1943) and played another victimized heroine in cult director Joseph H. Lewis's unnerving Gothic noir, "My Name Is Julia Ross" (1945). Foch is perhaps best known for her striking performance as Milo ("as in Venus de"), the wealthy arts patron who attempts to snare painter Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) with her money in Vincente Minnelli's Oscar-winning "An American in Paris" (1951). She was also quite fine in her Oscar-nominated turn as the loyal secretary in the all-star "Executive Suite" (1954) and as one of the fleeing Israelites in Cecil B. DeMille's holiday favorite, "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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Nina Foch
Filmography
Movies
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27% |
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How to Deal | Grandma Halley (Character) | $14.1M | 2003 |
36% |
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Pumpkin | Betsy Collander (Character) | $305.7K | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Blessings |
Peg Miller (Character), Director |
- | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Shadow of Doubt | Sylvia Saxon (Character) | - | 1998 |
14% |
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Hush | Alice Baring (Character) | $13.5M | 1998 |
5% |
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'Til There Was You | Sophia Monroe (Character) | $3.5M | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fast Company | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
18% |
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Sliver | Evelyn McEvoy (Character) | $35.5M | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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In the Arms of a Killer | Mrs. Venible (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outback Bound | Samantha's mother (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dixie Lanes | Unknown (Character) | - | 1987 |
36% |
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Nomads | The real estate sales lady (Character) | $2.3M | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadow Chasers | Dr. Juliana Moorhouse (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Jennifer | Mrs. Calley (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jennifer: The Snake Goddess | Mrs. Calley (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Houdinis | Rev. Le Veyne (Character) | - | 1976 |
29% |
|
Mahogany | Miss Evans (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Salty | Mrs. Penninger (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Female Artillery | Amelia Craig (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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Such Good Friends | Mrs. Wallman (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gidget Grows Up | Bibi Crosby (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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Columbo | Carol Flemming (Character) | - | 1968 |
94% |
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Spartacus | Helena Glabrus (Character) | $1.7M | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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Cash McCall | Maude Kennard (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ten Little Indians | Vera Claythorne (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Brave Men | Lt. Mary Jane McCoy (Character) | - | 1956 |
84% |
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The Ten Commandments | Bithiah (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Illegal | Ellen Miles (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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You're Never Too Young | Gretchen Brendan (Character) | - | 1955 |
100% |
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Executive Suite | Erica Martin (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Four Guns to the Border | Maggie Flannery (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fast Company | Mercedes Bellway (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sombrero | Elena Cantu (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Scaramouche | Marie Antoinette (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Young Man With Ideas | Joyce Laramie (Character) | - | 1952 |
95% |
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An American in Paris | Milo Roberts (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | St. Benny the Dip | Linda Kovacs (Character) | - | 1951 |
60% |
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The Undercover Man | Judith Warren (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Johnny Allegro | Glenda Chapman (Character) | - | 1949 |
50% |
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The Dark Past | Betty (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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A Song to Remember | Constantia (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet |
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Escape in the Fog | Eileen Carr (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prison Ship | Anne Graham (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Love a Mystery | Ellen Monk (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boston Blackie's Rendezvous | Sally Brown (Character) | - | 1945 |
92% |
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My Name Is Julia Ross | Julia Ross (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet |
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Cry of the Werewolf | Celeste (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strange Affair | Unknown (Character) | - | 1944 |
75% |
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The Return of the Vampire | Nicki Saunders (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadows in the Night | Lois Garland (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She's a Soldier, Too | Tessie Legruda (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nine Girls | Alice Blake (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Wheels West | Jan Colburn (Character) | - | 1943 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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83% | 84% | The Closer | Doris Donnelly (Guest Star) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 83% | NCIS | Mrs. Victoria Mallard (Guest Star) | 2005-2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bull | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just Shoot Me | Catherine DuChamp (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dharma & Greg | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Katie Emhardt (Guest Star) | 1991 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear John | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990-1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Gloria Morrell (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | War and Remembrance | Comtesse de Chambrun (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McMillan and Wife | Marietta Galway (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 1976 |
100% | 82% | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mod Squad | Mrs. Dykstra (Guest Star) | 1968 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Girl | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Agatha Corey (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Man Called Shenandoah | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
92% | 90% | The Outer Limits | Unknown (Character) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Frances Graham (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Autumn Ely (Guest Star) | 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bus Stop | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Man | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Clara Beauchamp (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1955 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Brita (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Joyce Newell (Character) | 1952 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1949-1950 1953-1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Tomorrow | Unknown (Character) | 1952 |